Senior Recruiter

About the role

Job Title Senior Recruiter Job Description About Vanderlande Vanderlande is a global leader in logistics process automation, specializing in automated material handling systems for airports, warehouses, and parcel operations. Our innovative solutions help move millions of products and pieces of luggage around the world every day. With a strong focus on technology, collaboration, and continuous improvement, we are committed to delivering reliable solutions for our customers while providing meaningful career opportunities for our employees.

About the Role

The Senior Recruiter will support Distribution hiring across the Americas, serving as a strategic talent acquisition partner to hiring managers and business leaders. This role is responsible for managing full-cycle recruitment, developing proactive sourcing strategies and building sustainable talent pipelines to support current and anticipated business growth.

The successful candidate will bring strong recruiting expertise, commercial acumen and a data-driven approach to talent acquisition. This individual will use market intelligence, recruiting analytics and innovative sourcing strategies to deliver high-quality talent while improving time to hire and the overall candidate and hiring manager experience.

As a senior member of the Talent Acquisition team, this role will also contribute to process improvements, mentor colleagues and help advance regional and global talent acquisition initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Business Partnership: Build strong relationships with Distribution hiring managers across the Americas, conducting intake meetings, establishing recruitment strategies, providing regular updates and proactively identifying and resolving hiring challenges.

• Full-Cycle Recruitment: Manage the entire recruitment lifecycle, from requisition intake and sourcing through interviewing, selection, offer negotiation and onboarding, ensuring a consistent and positive experience for candidates and hiring managers.
• Proactive Sourcing: Develop and execute innovative sourcing strategies using LinkedIn, social media, professional networks, referrals, direct outreach and other nontraditional methods to identify and attract qualified talent.

Talent Pipeline Development: Build and maintain robust talent pipelines for current and anticipated Distribution hiring needs, leveraging market intelligence, industry networks and competitive insights to support ongoing business growth. Data-Driven Recruiting: Leverage Workday and other available reporting tools to analyze recruiting metrics, identify trends, forecast hiring needs and develop actionable insights.

Use data to monitor time to fill, pipeline conversion, aging requisitions and sourcing effectiveness, proactively addressing gaps and recommending improvements. Market Intelligence: Maintain a strong understanding of the Distribution talent market across the Americas, including talent availability, compensation trends, competitor activity and emerging sourcing strategies, using these insights to advise hiring managers.

Candidate and Hiring Manager Experience: Manage interview processes, coordinate timely feedback, communicate consistently with candidates and hiring managers, and ensure a professional and engaging recruitment experience throughout the hiring lifecycle.

Process Improvement: Identify and implement opportunities to improve recruiting processes, systems and tools, with a focus on efficiency, scalability, consistency and continuous improvement. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with HR Business Partners, Global Mobility and other stakeholders to ensure alignment throughout the recruitment process and support business and regional talent priorities.

Talent Acquisition Initiatives: Support employer branding, diversity, inclusion and other regional and global talent acquisition initiatives to strengthen Vanderlande's position as an employer of choice. Compliance and Documentation: Maintain accurate and timely candidate records in Workday, ensuring compliance with applicable employment legislation, company policies, EEO requirements and relevant OFCCP regulations.

Mentorship and Knowledge Sharing: Serve as a subject matter expert in recruitment, sharing best practices, mentoring and supporting the development of other recruiters across the Americas. Continuous Development: Stay current on recruiting technologies, industry trends and emerging talent acquisition practices, identifying opportunities to strengthen the team's capabilities and effectiveness.

Perform other duties and support additional talent acquisition initiatives as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Minimum of seven years of professional recruiting experience, including at least two years in a corporate talent acquisition environment.
• At least five years of experience developing and executing proactive recruiting strategies, including nontraditional sourcing methods and direct talent engagement.

• At least five years of experience using applicant tracking systems and managing recruitment data.
• Demonstrated experience developing and executing sourcing strategies using social media, professional networks and other digital recruiting platforms.
• Experience recruiting across multiple business functions, preferably within Distribution, logistics, supply chain, engineering or industrial automation.

Proven ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with hiring managers, senior leaders, candidates, vendors and external professional networks. Experience using recruiting metrics and analytics to evaluate performance, identify opportunities and improve hiring outcomes.

Demonstrated experience contributing to strategic talent acquisition initiatives aligned with business objectives, workforce plans and budgetary considerations.

Preferred Qualifications

Strong business acumen and the ability to establish trusted relationships with hiring managers and stakeholders at all levels of the organization. Excellent communication, interpersonal, negotiation and influencing skills, with the ability to engage effectively with candidates and business leaders.

Extensive knowledge of full-cycle recruiting, proactive sourcing strategies and talent pipeline development, particularly in high-volume or complex recruiting environments. Strong analytical skills and the ability to interpret recruiting data, identify trends and translate insights into actionable recruitment strategies.

• Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities, meet performance objectives and deliver results in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
• Strong interviewing and candidate assessment skills, with the ability to evaluate talent against business needs and role requirements.
• Experience working within a global or regional HR matrix environment, collaborating across functions, business units and geographies.

• Proficiency in applicant tracking systems and HRIS platforms; Workday experience is highly desirable.
• Knowledge of employment practices, recruitment compliance, EEO requirements and applicable employment regulations.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and exercise sound judgment when handling sensitive candidate and business information.
• Strong problem-solving skills, adaptability and a continuous improvement mindset.

Ability to mentor colleagues, share expertise and contribute to a collaborative team environment.